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1. 寮 (ryo@social.076.moe)'s status on Saturday, 21-Jan-2023 21:23:37 JST 寮
   It's official, Japan is slow as fuck.
   J-Gov just decided that I've been right all along, 1 month behind CHAINA!!, 6 months behind on Ausjailia, USSA, Kanaduh, and New Xiland, 1 year behind Europe, Latin America, and Roshan, 1 year and 6 months behind Africa, and 3 years and 6 months behind common sense.
   I guess at least we're still 50 years ahead of the far left, so I guess it's not that bad...
   
   Jaban to lower covAIDS to non-issue status, further easing annoyances
   https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/japan-to-lower-covid-19-to-flu-status-further-easing-rules-1.6238801
   • Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.moe)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jan-2023 15:36:22 JST Terminal Autism

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     What about travel? Still requiring ze shots? If Japan isn't requiring them, then it's ahead of the US, because they have extended the requirement again until April. And when it gets there, they'll do it again. Probably forever. This is what happens when governments have emergency powers, it will be an emergency forever.
   • 寮 (ryo@social.076.moe)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jan-2023 17:07:19 JST 寮

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     • Terminal Autism
     For domestic travel, they were never required.
     For overseas travel, it was either 3 shots or negative RNG "test" which is not a test result, but never a hard requirement.
     So in a way, Japan went from 2nd most strict (behind CHAINA!!) border policies to somewhere between the American and European extremes.
     
     But I expect Japan to go to European level after they move the level from 2-atsu (they created a special category just for covAIDS) to 5, which is what Europe did last year too.
     Besides, nobody even cares about the covAIDS here anymore anyway, most people are just patiently waiting for the government to say "OK children, it's OK to not be afraid anymore".